{"id":25931,"date":"2020-04-20T09:14:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T09:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/?p=25931"},"modified":"2025-10-21T08:43:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T08:43:13","slug":"limited-life-foundations-motivations-experiences-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/2020\/04\/20\/limited-life-foundations-motivations-experiences-strategies\/","title":{"rendered":"Limited Life Foundations: Motivations, Experiences &#038; Strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Urban Institutes, 2009.<\/strong>&nbsp;Francie Ostrower, an Urban Institute associate scholar, conducted a research study of 850 foundations in 2007 and 2008 to compare attitudes and practices of limited life and perpetual foundations. Ostrower then conducted follow up interviews with a set of the limited life foundations to probe the motivations, experiences and strategies associated with this strategy of grantmaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban.org\/UploadedPDF\/411836_limitedlifefoundations.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Read full story (opens in a new tab)\">Read full story<\/a><\/p>\n<script>;<\/script><script>;<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urban Institutes, 2009.&nbsp;Francie Ostrower, an Urban Institute associate scholar, conducted a research study of 850 foundations in 2007 and 2008&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-giving-while-living"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25931"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123158,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25931\/revisions\/123158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lodestarfoundation.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}